Super Smash Bros. Brawl for the Nintendo Wii is shipping on March 9th. You can pre-order the highly anticipated new game for the Wii on Amazon.com for $49.99.
This is the 3rd installment in Nintendo’s popular Super Smash Bros. fighter franchise now set to debut on the Nintendo Wii.
In Super Smash Bros. Brawl for Wii you can play against registered friends or randomly selected opponents from anyplace in the world via a Nintendo Wi-Fi connection.
More details and game play video on Amazon.com.

In recent months, the PlayStation 3 versions of many multiplatform games have been released after their Xbox 360 counterparts–or canceled outright. Others, like Grand Theft Auto IV, have seen both versions delayed because, having optimized the game first on the 360, the developers encountered difficulties with the PS3 edition.
This week at the 2008 Game Developers Conference, a major studio laid bare the pitfalls of cross-platform development on the current crop of consoles–and talked about how it plans to deal with it in the future. In an expansive and informative lecture, …

Speaking at an event for the Google Lunar X Prize on Thursday, Google co-founder Sergey Brin reiterated his company’s position on a Microsoft-Yahoo union, the Associated Press reported.
“The Internet has evolved from open standards, having a diversity of companies. And when you start to have companies that control the operating system, control the browsers, they really tie up the top Web sites, and can be used to manipulate stuff in various ways. I think that’s unnerving,” Brin said.
It’s the same argument Google used when the Microsoft bid for Yahoo …

T-Mobile USA said Thursday it’s testing a new Internet telephony service in Dallas and Seattle that will replace consumers’ wireline home phone service.
Subscribers will be able to connect any regular home telephone to a T-Mobile router that will send calls over the Internet much the same way as services like Vonage operate. The service costs $10 a month plus taxes and fees for unlimited domestic local and long distance calls. But customers also have to be signed up for a T-Mobile wireless service costing at least $39.99 a month. The …

By JOHN DUNBAR, AP
Internet users should be free to surf where they want and download what they please. But shouldn’t the owners of the networks that make the Internet possible also have rights?
That, in a nutshell, is the topic of debate at a special public meeting of the Federal Communications Commission at Harvard Law School on Monday.
Recent events involving Comcast Corp. and Verizon Wireless have raised questions about network owners interfering with customer traffic flow. The meeting also is expected to attract a rally on minority media ownership.
The session is …

John Shannon, chairman of NASA’s Mission Management Team and the man responsible for the conduct of space shuttle missions, was named manager of the shuttle program today, replacing N. Wayne Hale, a veteran ascent-entry flight director who helped steer NASA’s recovery from the 2003 Columbia disaster.
Shannon, a former flight director known for his self-assured, no-nonsense management style, takes over at a critical time for NASA as the agency attempts to finish construction of the international space station and fly a final 12 shuttle missions before retiring the winged orbiters in …

A coalition of Stanford scientists has released the most detailed road map yet of human diversity, offering insight into the emergence and restless migration of the world’s populations.
Using the Stanford Human Genome Center to study genetic variations in almost 1,000 individuals from 51 populations, the team has completed the largest analysis to date of human diversity. The data is published in today’s issue of the journal Science.
The scientists discerned some of the great sweeps of human movement, like the early exodus out of Africa. They also found evidence of …